2 children and 9 adults were tested in Sapporo, and thyroid cancer was suspected

Adult woman has been confirmed to have thyroid cancer

Japanese researchers [say] “it is impossible for children under the age of 6 to have nodules 5 millimeters or larger”

But the doctor who examined them in Sapporo, Hokkaido says, “Whatever they say, this is the result”

In the case of Chernobyl, it took 4 years till the cases of thyroid cancer started to appear. The doctor in Sapporo is shocked by the quick onset

Kouta Kinoshita’s blog translation and comments by EX-SKF

He and several others had known about it, and were trying to find a better way to disclose the information with the agreement of all the parties involved (parents, for one). He seems rather upset with the reporter. He also quotes an expert of the Chernobyl accident he consults with: “At this stage, you can’t tell whether it is a malignant tumor. I personally think the Bunshun article went overboard. What’s known now is that they have some tumor of unknown nature. The growth is rapid, and no doubt it is a health damage from radioactive materials. I think it can be categorized as damage caused by radiation, even if the growth is benign, because before March 11 [accident], such growth was impossible in children.”

128 comments to Magazine Scandal: Serious abnormalities found in evacuees; Sapporo doctor shocked by quick onset of suspected thyroid cancers — Such rapid growth was impossible in children before 3/11, says report

My theory is the extreme speed of the illness development progression is likely relative to the degree of contamination present. In other words, Japan is extremely contaminated. Perhaps other radiation illnesses will also be accelerated which will actually allow us to demonstrate the relationship of these occurrences to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster where it is rightfully due. For me, this would be an important positive direction this could take.

Good Morning B&B, hope you are well. I think you stated you lived in Hawaii. If not I hope you are well wherever you are.
Something I'd like to say this morning is that I've been researching a little about Japan's history concerning Tsunamis. What I found is that they are good for a catastrophic type Tsunami on average of about every 65yrs. Some years they have had as many as 3 over a 100yr period then there are times when only one will occur over a 100yr period. Dating back to the earliest historical account which I think I read was in 550 something they have had a catastrophic Tsunami every century. Many of these Tsunamis killed tens of thousands of people at a time. Only a couple times there were either no deaths reported or very few.
I just do not understand with knowledge of natural disaster like these occurring, in what would be in historical terms often, they would not have opted for a less risky alternative for energy needs. especially with what was know about nuclear power when they were put into operation.
It places fault directly at feet those making these decisions on behalf of nation and their citizens.

Then again this may have been the only cost affective energy solution at the time. I'd like to think they researched all other options before deciding on building 40+ nuclear reactors at the shoreline from the bodies of water which these tsunamis arose from.

LaterLuke: good post, and on point. The problem with atomic power plants is not that they were badly designed, though they are flawed and frail. The problem lies within ourselves, the human builders, operators, and regulators. (And a negligent public which tolerated having these death machines built in the first place.) Utility owners will always try to preserve shareholder value, even if it means endangering public safety. (Building spent fuel pools above reactors, because it is cheaper, etc.) Regulators will always protect their utility clients. (Increasing the allowable radiation dose by a factor of 10, while assuring the poisoned public that it is safe to return to their homes in the evacuation zone). This is why this crazy situation developed as it did. Japan must begin to evacuate their homeland or else stay and perish. America must not allow the building of two new nuclear death machines to go forward in Georgia.

There is an addition to Canada's 2nd largest reactor complex, Darlington, on the table as well. Haven't heard even the slightest opposition to it going forward in the Canadain, Ontario and Toronto/GTA media. Four new reactors.

There is no scandal here – the Japanese have set up a system here to not disclose diagnostics. The reporter in question should have got the consent of the families. I admire her will to get out the truth though.

It would be one thing to take a dose of harmful radiation and then leave the country for safety's sake and then deal with the consequences of that exposure, but these poor people have been and will continue to be permeated by this radiation. It's as if this should be the closing chapter of the history of the nuclear age!! A very bad nursery rhyme will come of this to teach future mutant generations!!

And further, that incident may have to be in the US, since it is behind much of the resistance and obstinance, denial, lies, spin and deception around carbon fuels, global climate change, effects of co2, imperial adventures, illegal wars, global genocide via DU weapons, nuclear power plants, etc…

As Arnie Gunderson said in a recent interview, it will more than likely be a one of the 21 Mark I reactors, because they are the weakest and most flawed of all plants…

Of course, the Carrington Effect will give us a HUGE experience, if we are stupid enough as a human species to wait that long, and risk being wiped out as a human species, along with all life on the planet.

I can't believe the normalcy bias that exists around the Carrington effect and solar flares. It is not if, but when it will happen. And as you have said, if it happens soon any nuke plant or waste pile that needs cooling will melt down in short order then the whole world will be experiencing the effects in the article.

Hi goathead … glad to see you like Jimmi (I went to school with Noel Redding, so I have a bit of a connection, albeit tenuous, to the genius).

Name-drop over, but I couldn't resist; nor to your idea that some future generation might have a "nursery song" – assuming that our species survives – about this latest plague emanating from Fukushima, but presaged by Chernobyl and hundreds of atomic bomb tests before that … and this is how a future rhyme might go:

"Ring a ring of plutonium,
Six reactors in a row.
They all fell down
And we did too."

I haven't posted much since about May last year, because I realized that this is probably an "extinction event" and that nothing can be done about it.

On the other hand, I could be wrong, so I have not tried to discourage those less pessimistic/fatalistic than I am; but I note that I have not affected anyone here I got acquainted with at the outset, e.g. Tacomagroove and others who know who they are, so I feel free to express my negative opinions, especially considering recent and upcoming nuclear wars.

Make no mistake that the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya were not nuclear, because they were, even if 'only' because of "depleted uranium", which is highly toxic.

The pending wars against Syria and Iran WILL be nuclear and might well involve atomic bombs, though Iran has none.

So IF Washington, London, NATO, Tel Aviv and satraps like Qatar go ahead, then the accident at Fukushima will look like just a tea party for what comes to pass … which has been planned for at least two decades … Google PNAC.

Some claim that Fukushima was an engineered event – like 911 certainly was – but I am careful about which "conspiracy theories" I buy into.

Fukushima was an accident waiting to happen, as opposed to the planned demolition of the WTCs and current wars in the ME.

Sorry folks, but your fate (and mine of course) is sealed by both accident and design, such as world banks betting both…

I wanted to post a link of the deformed babies from the war, but it is too sad and disgusting. To graphic, and puts faces to your words gerryhiles. Some faces of the babies have unrecognizable features. A finger coming out of a Cyclops eye. Brains comming out, and some so mutaded looking at them makes me ask deep moral questions. It looked as though some were alive.

What is so tragic is that these children will more than likely develop leukemia within the nxt couple of years, Sad, just horribly sad. In a more thought out world children wouldn't have to go through suffering like this.

CHERNOBYL HEARThttp://youtu.be/8ujAG_Ofj4M
Documentary about the children living in areas affected by Chernobyl; details about health effects on children, hearts, mental, physical, birth defects, % of normal births is only 15%, and getting worse, generation after generation… may soon get to 0%.

Today, 20 years after the Chernobyl accident, the large increase in thyroid cancer incidence among those exposed in childhood and adolescence continues. In contrast, no clearly demonstrated increase in the incidence of other cancers can be attributed to radiation exposure from the accident (28). Although radiation-induced thyroid cancer is a well-recognized medical phenomenon based on wide-ranged epidemiological studies, molecular signature(s) and other details of papillary thyroid cancer remain to be further clarified to pinpoint differential diagnostic criteria not only in childhood and adult thyroid cancers but also in radiation-induced and sporadic cancers (29). The latest study in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb survivors in Japan has indicated that a biological effect from a single brief external exposure to ionizing radiation nearly 60 years in the past still occurs and can be detected (30).

In childhood, once exposed even to low doses of ionizing radiation, either externally or internally, the cancer-prone cell damage within the thyroid gland can be preserved for a long time. Today, special attention should be paid to a high risk group of individuals who have been exposed to radioactive iodines just after the Chernobyl accident and who are now 20 to 30 year-old. Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced thyroid cancer is expected to contribute to the disease prevention and treatment in the coming future.

I was thinking that maybe for soil you could dig deep enough, even with radiation still pouring out of the reactors that maybe it would be a bit less contaminated, grow foods in greenhouses. … choose less contaminated areas in other countries even..but of course the water. So I simply do not know. I would love some feedback.

Gamma radiation & neutron decay creates illumination in the digital lens of the camera operating on sight… It is large amounts of energy being released that damages the pixels in the lens… So when you witness many flashes (which I too witnessed), You can assume that there is a leak occurring with open air levels on sight reflecting in the +sievert scale.

I have been pondering that light source for quite some time now. I wonder if it is somehow cleansing or vaporizing the environment. ???

I know a usa marine team was dispatched with some very sensitive air monitoring equipment shortly after the event began. The report stated that the team had a laser / array that could read the amount of radioactivity in the cloud layer. Measuring both the size and severity of the radiation in the environment.

So

I assume the light can only be 1 of 4 things.

1. Basic illusion / manipulation.

2. A furnace / which vaporizes contaminated materials.

3. It could be cleansing the environment?

4. It could be a glass furnace to create?

Only guesses I have.

I also get the feeling that reactor 3 has a large hole in the containment dome and tepco has been sneakily mixing cement in with the top feed of the cooling on the reactor… Which temporarily plugs the leak. Only to collapse every so often to need another repair. If this is the case the situation as usual should be expected to deteriorate here soon enough…

Not sure but what I want to know is why have I been seeing, not on the cam but visually within my own eyes what I can only assume are plutonium flashes. Once about every 5mins or so. One here, a couple there. These would be like if when you sneeze, or get light headed but a lot fewer. I'm just trying to give a description. I do know the difference.

External 'natural' non man made radiation like cosmic rays, are WAY different from low level INTERNAL radiation from nuclear fallout products. Nuke apologists like to confuse people about them being the same, and they are NOT.

The really unusual part is at night for the past week I've seen sparks or flashes just like on the fukucam when I look outside through my window. These appear to be at a distance. I know according to NASA there has been an uptick in meteors that are moving slower than usual at about 15km a sec. They are actually making into the lower atmosphere, but these are usually fireballs as reported in Texas and Georgia. What I;m seeing a about the same size as what we see on the fukucam, but appear to be distant not close. What I personally am seeing in my eye is strangely also like what we are seeing on the fukucam. Go figure, I'm probably just going crazy. :/

Thanks for that info too Tacoma, again as to the your question about the light, I know there is some distortion associated video at night but I never thought it would be that much as during the day the cam seems quite clear. I know the pulsing we see is just the intermittent timing of the frame.

I highly doubt that any cleansing is going on.. I have seen reports about decontamination. They use brooms, water spray and simple brooms; nothing high tech. That would cost money.

What is needed is a global crash research project with BILLIONS poured into it, about how to defuse these bombs, clean up waste from accidents and how to make nuclear fuel that is melted or in danger of melting inert, plus keep humans safe from released radiation.

Some ideas have been generated here on this site, but I highly doubt any nuclear operator is in pursuit or experimenting with any of these solutions.

With the Carrington Effect coming to a planet we love and live on (SOON), if we do not turn them all off, and/or have solutions ready, humanity will not need nuclear power any longer, because Nature will doom humanity and all life on the planet to extinction, for being stupid enough to open Pandora's Box and then play with Pandora's toys.

Japan Expert: It was a nuclear explosion at Reactor No. 3 — I believe fuel rods were blown out of spent fuel pool December 13, 2011http://enenews.com/alert-japan-expert-nuclear-explosion-reactor-3-believe-fuel-rods-blown-spent-fuel-pool

Highly radioactive pieces from the spent fuel pools were blown up to a mile away April 6, 2011http://enenews.com/highly-radioactive-pieces-spent-fuel-pools-blown-mile-away

Tacomagroove,
Noticed a large hole in buildings roof next to R3, from first photo's released, believe the whole lid was blown off and fell into adjacent building, It has been repeated many time building 3 is to hot to get close to, MOX, doing so would cause certain death to anyone doing so ? Water was poured onto at times I am sure from photos. but no man walketh near !

Yea, I noticed they closed the comments section too.. NO TRUTH ALLOWED about the dangers of nuclear, even in a public funded media organization. They are opening up in other monopoly controlled areas, such as Big Pharma and Church though, so there is still hope.

That is what happens when you allow politicians and huge corporations to come in and 'influence' what should be a bottoms up, public access media channel.

I would hope that they would eventually put on shows with Gunderson, Dr Helen Caldicott MD and others like them.

@Laterlukemayb if you are seeing those types of flashes then you do need to see an eye doctor. It may be serious. Now I have floaters that do no damage for now, & that might be what they are but please have your eyes checked. I just did a simple Google search. You can put in a better description. But look at a couple of the links I Googled first.

Yep, I use to get those quite often Maiden, I found mine were happening due to an allergic reaction to sodium nitrate. They use it a lot in processed cheese, sandwich meat. Cut it out of my diet and haven't had one since.

Laterlukemayb, thank you for your helpful migraine trigger information…cheese, I love, hates me. Vision loss, aura then a bad headache. So sodium nitrate is my problem. The doctors have never told me that and did give me one long list a foods to avoid, never mentioning the chemicals responcible. Yes, yes, yes thank you!

I had a scare about this too recently, with bright flashes, floaters half the size of the visual field, bulging eye, burning sensation, feeling like insects were crawling on it, migraines etc. Happened all of a sudden. Fortunately, no retinal tear or cataract.

A goiter had developed in my neck, this happened when it receded away.

I have the floaters as well Bobby. I have to laugh because prior to knowing what it was I was seeing I was convinced I was seeing ghosts or demons. My have gotten pretty bad. They don't completely obstruct my vision, but very much notice them.

I had a bunch of crazy visual problems including the crawling sensations a little before diagnosis of Neuro-Lymes. Many protocols later, I got results(both Lymes and the crawlies) with high dose oral Salt/Vitamin C.

This would also explain rapid goiter…beware – they might be headed for your pancreas next.

The flashes are not happening all the time. They come spurts. Like a few days will pass then I'll see them. Sometimes more that 2 dozen for the day, then it calms down to a few here and there. It could very well be associated with being online for long periods of time.
I will do a search, the link you posted just gave me the main search page for goggle. I thank you though.
I feel that to much of the post has been devoted to my concerns and there are other comments that are much more related and important to the subject matter.

Ohh I linked to a Google page with a search for ..Seeing Flashes of Light. I do use an encrypted search & it is not Country specific, that may be why it did not work for you. I am not an eye specialist so I did not want to make claims about any one website.

This reads like a horror novel. And that's what bothers me the most. How can you have an industry who hasn't studied "worse case scenarios" and taken proper steps to make sure ALL POWER PLANTS are safe guarded accordingly? When you think about all the safety warnings Daiichi received years before and STILL nothing was done – well that's enough for me.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN

This document – which somebody has obviously had transcribed – is information for the legal core of a case that could bring down the nuclear industry.

It shows a regulatory agency that is filtering information and making decisions in a way inconsistent with the law and its charter right from the beginning of the disaster.

Thanks Whoopie.

Unfortunately, it also confirms all the speculation we made for which we had no actual data – but lots of conflicting bits – That those on the Reagan got seriously radiated. That the core of #3 did indeed blow. I don't have time to asborb it all now, but I'm going to.

Yes…there were 11 documents in PDF format released yesterday and I have them all in a folder.

I have been sick so haven't read much of the 3,000 pages.

The document 106 you mention has some blacked out sections (if paper could only talk)…that would probably either put someone in prison or scare the living hell out of us. *;-)

Look at page 63 and you will read about Chairman Jaczko asking about his employees who were enroute to Japan and he wants to know did they get their Ki (potassium iodide). Seems NRC employees knew to take and were provided this thyroid cancer supplement, but screw the rest of the world.

So INSPIRING I sent it to all my contacts. We must keep this Bookmarked and post it whenever possible. Esp with the 1 year Anniversary coming up on the 11th! It's EMOTIONAL RAW AND EXPRESSES EVERYTHING WE KNOW TO BE TRUE about ALL NPP's … and JAPAN.

Me too James. I'm gonna do all I can to keep that VIDEO GOING VIRAL. I would love to have the TEXT of their song. Had you ever seen it before?? I'm going to check out their Ytube channel. Maybe the lyrics are there. If not, I might just spend a day TYPING THEM UP!

@Whoopie –Guess you missed it when I posted it about a month ago after I'd seen it on Twitter.
I guess I just DON'T POST ENOUGH IN ALL CAPS OR SCREAM LOUDLY ENOUGH THAT I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS FOR – SINCE THE GET GO.

From the accident itself to the managment of the following crisis, it is a catastrophe! and the japanese officials will bear the guilt as well as the International Community by it silent complicity!http://www.kanaky.x90x.com

The system cost 2.6 billion yen ($33 million) to create and was up and running Feb. 21.

It measures air radiation levels of gamma rays at a height of 50 centimeters above the ground in kindergartens, day care centers and elementary schools and at a height of 1 meter above the ground at junior high and senior high schools and at other public facilities.

The measurement stations operate on solar cells and use built-in cellphone devices to transmit data automatically to a server computer operated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

The website, which shows the locations of radiation gauges on a map, allows the user to check out current radiation levels and how they changed.

I was saddened by the anger/swearing at each other in the comments on this article at EX-SKF. I am so grateful for the community here, which I only recently found.

I'd been doing research and writing on DU before Fukushima–of course since then I have become even more worried about the percentage of out planet that we are making permanently uninhabitable.

So many of the forums neglect to channel the rage communally at the perpetrators, but instead waste energy via unacceptable behavior toward those who post, towards each other. And it's not just moles who are doing this, though I am sure they love to see it.

But here, I find solace in a world that is offering so little solace, and activism that is educational and constructive.

Why no news on the North Anna Nuclear plant leak in Virginia? Heard about it in the news in Seattle, WA. The groundwater is contaminated at 3-4 time EPA standards..so..4000 Bq/m3 –and the TEPCO lookalike, VEPCO, says NOT OUR RADIATION. SO..if

So if not North Anna's radiation, its the "no danger for fallout from Japan.."–which the government says. So cant have cake and eat it too..somewhere radiation has contaminated the ground water.
For the record, VEPCO also (like TEPCO) lies and trys to manipulate data for their benifit. Most resently in Virginina Beach, VEPCO testified there was NO danger from "fly ash" or the residuals from their processes. So a golf course was built. Now the ground water is contamninated, and a class action suit filed as NO ONE IN GOVERMENT has done anything to help the affected land owners. VEPCO ignores. The legal case, however, has surfaced emails (listening TEPCO?) of the efforts to hide the danger. This is exactly the same "playbook" used by TEPCO. And now for the North Anna plant..no danger..all fine..NOT OUR PROBLEM. Wonder when we will learn??

Thyroid cancer is the fastest growing cancer in the world and it is being caused from nuclear radiation contamination. All cancers have skyrocketed since 1945 and this cancer and disease pandemic is a direct reflection of repeated nuclear radiation contamination events worldwide. We have all been hoodwinked by those seeking profits through human misery.

Thyroid testing in children delayed after Fukushima due to worries that monitoring would add anxiety to community

Lucas W Hixson on Feb 23, 2012

In the weeks following the March 11th disaster the estimated exposure dose for children was abnormally elevated, leading the Japanese government to begin testing to deduce the amount of radioactive iodine concentrated in the thyroid of over 1000 children shorty after the accident. Many parents demanded the tests, drawing parallels with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, after which locals reported thyroid disorders, a problem sometimes associated with radiation exposure.

The Japanese Yomiuri report shows that the government’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill requests from the Cabinet’s Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan (NSC) to conduct further testing on the internal radioactive exposure of children, due to fears of how the public may react to the inspections. One tragedy endured by the Soviets after the Chernobyl disaster, was an epidemic of thyroid cancer among people exposed to the radiation as children, which to a large extent was preventable and would probably not have happened if people had been told to stop drinking locally produced, and today many argue that there is no justifiable reason for it to be repeated in Japan.

It takes some time for thyroid cancer just like other cancers to start and set in after initial radiation contamination exposures and this is exactly how this nuclear folly has gotten away with such past practices and deceit.

The cats out of the bag and the truth is now available for all to see. We have been in the past and are now being lied to today on a continual basis by all authorities world wide concerning Nuclear Power and related Nuclear Technologies.

60 years is all it took to trash the entire planet. Thats some real human progress based on our current understandings and promoted educational systems.

CB thanks, I have actually been here for quite some time. My silence in the past should not be construed as a negative but as a positive as I have watched the warriors on this site carry the true concern for the future of all humanity and not unlike a shield for all others to admire.

We are entering very dangerous times my friend and this current worldwide Nuclear problem is leading the pack.

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